Word: avoiding
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With proctors or graduate students to turn to first, Harvard students can avoid speaking to faculty members for a long time, undergraduates...
Last week at Somersworth High School in New Hampshire, for instance, some poor kid asked him a simple question about how to develop leadership skills. Gore hurried over to the boy and stood too close to him, looking every bit like that one guy you end up trying to avoid at the party. And by the time he approached what must have been Point 6B in a frightfully organized answer, several students appeared comatose...
...Harvard lies in finding the correct balance between large and small classes. Large classes may be better known--and therefore tempting to students--but a full load of courses taught in Sanders Theatre may leave some students feeling lost in the crowd. On the other hand, students who scrupulously avoid large lecture classes may never have the chance to be in a course taught by one of Harvard's academic superstars...
...hard to avoid their tunnel-vision," said William Webber, Keyes's New Hampshire state chair...
...immediate aftermath of Jackson's intervention, school officials sought to avoid the cost of a lengthy battle by crafting a compromise. They reduced the term of the students' expulsion to one year, and further, they arranged for the students to attend alternative schools during that time. Perhaps not surprisingly, this was not enough to satisfy the outraged Jackson...